Eddie Money gave us the lyrics - "I want to go back and do it all over but I can't go back..." and Johnny Paycheck, a country artist with more of a cult following - gave us the working man's anthem - "Take this job and shove it."
Speaking of shoving it, how about the punctuation in the paragraph above? That sucks. What are you going to do?
The past. Some long for it. Some can't remember it. Some spend way too much time dwelling on it. Some are stuck in '82 like Uncle Rico. My oldest sister is one of them. TV Land has saved her life. She loves Mayberry yet Green Acres is the place to be and when it comes to radio there is always WKRP. All great shows but hard to discuss in the workplace when others are discussing LOST and you are just that. What is Grey's Anatomy and what about The Office - aren't we here everyday why do I have to watch it at night? Huh?
My past. Talk about something you don't want to know about. How about this? In the last 5 years, I pretty much cheated death - seriously, lived with my sister in a small apartment, got a divorce, started my own business, had a 120 day stretch where I had a pulmonary embolism, what they thought was heart disease, flatlined after a procedure, had a tumor removed that was benign but thought was Hodgkin's, and pretty much started much of my adult life over. Those are just a few of the lowlights from a season that was sometimes pretty dark. I share that because when bitterness still occasionally rears it's head in my life - I celebrate that I survived it came out SOOOO much better, meditate on a few of those facts, smile and think of some of the former conditional friends in my life and fantasize recounting that story and screaming F U repeatedly in their face really loud yet very articulate. (By the way, I go over the top in my writing but all that crap I just noted is true - also true I have some issues given that last sentence)
Wow that is alot more poor punctuation to stomach above but you must admit - while poor on form, strong on substance. Now that you are glad you weren't me - here is what you want to do.
The victories in your career really need to be documented. You forget that stuff. This is a very cool site, developed by a friend of mine, who has dropped some serious cash to get this to the marketplace. Use it to look back on what you have done, document your successes, store critical career docs, a whole bunch of cool features - FREE. Check out CareerScribe.com.
The bitterness in your career needs to MAYBE be documented. Check out JobVent.com. I think many of you probably need to write the entry and then delete it but one thing is for sure - you need to purge it. It is only hurting you. Incidentally, you can also document positive things from your workplace. (FYI - talked to the guy that runs the site - he has been threatened but never sued - I am not responsible for your spewing of the facts.)
I am really not big on touting websites but I think these two are absolutely solid especially when they converge at the intersection of Eddie Money and Johnny Paycheck - maybe you want to go back and do it all over and maybe you just need to let someone know how you feel. I don't want to go back but I don't want to shove it either - with the exception of some of those alleged friend's faces. I better stop.
